WEBSITE: http://jillshalvis.com
LAUNCH DATE: March 2007
DESIGNER: Emily
CMS: WordPress
TAGS: author, blue, fresh, photography, romance, three column, website with blog, white
Jill Shalvis is a long-time client of ours as well as hostee. She was looking for a fresh update to her site and blog design and thought a beach themed design would fit the bill nicely. She wanted a design that was fun and sexy like her books, but not outwardly erotic like many romance author websites.
I went with a limited color palette of fresh, soft colors and combined some beautiful stock imagery of a beach scene with a women’s legs to add that hint of sexiness she was looking for. I combined the stock imagery with a really subtle wave pattern in certain places and other small beach themed details such as different shells for each page link in the navigation menu.
Thanks to the wonder of WordPress I was able to combine her website and blog into one single installation of Wordpress, which will make her entire site easier to maintain as well as making the design installation faster and easier for me (which saved her $$).
She also wanted to incorporate ads into her blog, so I expanded it to three columns as well as putting some adsense ads into the content area.
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